Another one from Boxing Day

Boxing Day!

New 50mm Nikkor for me!

Christmas Lights

Music Box Dancer 2008 - Holdman Christmas Display from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

Tree time!

Waterfall @ Dubai Mall

Website Update!

Hopefully by the end of today, there will be a new website update!

http://www.ianrobson.co.uk

Another Set of Christmas Lights!

Just one of the trees in the second set of Outdoor lights we have done this year.

White Lion Walk

Christmas Lights, White Lion Walk, Banbury.

Crafty!

Good Looking Birds!

Cake

A wedding one I took earlier in the year.. Just looked at it again this evening and its growing on me!

The Better Half

Autumn

Autumn in the Uk is rapidly dissapearing so before the leaves were all on the ground I thought I would take Some "stock" Autumn leaf pictures, plus it was all I could get in the time available this week.

ICE Spitfire

Rememberance Sunday.

Rememberance sunday today in the UK, Also lots of weather! In a brief respite from the rain I managed to grab these poppies at the base of the monument at the local church.

Friday Photo.

Laser!

Its not often you get to play with a 100mw laser so I had to get the Nikon out and have a play... Didnt have the tripod with me so this shot was hand held...

Several weeks ago I entered a picture into the Digital SLR Photgraphy Magazine's Photo Excellence 2008 Awards and would you believe it I recieved a letter today telling me my entry had been graded as a Distinction.

Distinction : An Image that exhibits the highest standard in terms of a creative eye and interpretation of theme, as well as superb technical skills. Quite simply, one of the best submissions we have recieved and a strong contender for one of the monthly prizes.

I have to say I have no idea how many people will have recieved this but I am over the moon to say the least. Find out more about the competition and magazine at http://www.digitalslrphoto.com/

Playing with Flash

I have been playing with my SB800, Its a huge learning curve.. This moment was taken on camera, diffused with a SoftboxII.

Wedding Photography.

Heres an interesting insight into wedding photography and the equipment that Henry Chen uses. Some serious prime lenses in this bag. Henry is a wedding photgrapher in LA. Check out his webpage at http://www.henrychenphotography.com/

What's In My Bag? from Henry Chen Photography on Vimeo.

Darkness Falls

What else can you do when it gets dark at 4pm? Heres another evening shot from back in may, this was taken at about 8pm...

Learning Curve.

Here is one of my first pictures taken with my Nikon, Unfortunatly I used a high ISO and the picture is quite noisy. It has annoyed me because I love this picture and I can almost guarantee that this shot will not happen again. So as for the heading of todays blog, I will be checking in future..

Woodland!

Living close to the Royal forest of Salcey in Northamptonshire often gives me inspiration. Heres one I did a while back. B&W certainly made this picture.

Interesting Reading

http://blogs.gettyimages.com/creative/2008/10/23/is-the-quality-good-enough/

Worth a read! Any Thoughts?

Two Minutes after taking this the storm rolled in and I was soaked.

Is it just me or is there always something else you need for photography, another stand, another strobe, another lens etc etc... It must be the same for other creative activities I assume but maybe not at the same cost! Watching the Joe McNally Video today on strobist has assured me that I need several more Speedlights! Watching the Reverie video on vincent laforet's blog has meant I desperatly require a 5d Mk2 and some of the clips on Chase Jarvis's Blog, well lets just say if the cuboard wasnt bare before hand it would be now!

A Picture to start...

I took this at The Cotswold Wildlife Park a couple of weeks ago, Even though the eye are is very dark I love the picture. I cant put my finger on the reason why but I cant help wondering what this Meerkat was thinking!